Daily Archives: June 11, 2009

Tell OTRR about one of your most memorable runs?  Ok there is a story behind this lol.  One of my most memorable runs was at the IPRA Rodeo in St Tite, QU.  It was in 2007 and I had Mighty Mouse up there.  On the way up there while getting the horses off the trailer Mighty Mouse got into a bind and ending up flipping backwards out of the trailer, taking a chunk of hair off her head, puncturing her side right where the girth would go, as well as scrapes all over her hocks.  She got up really dazed and loaded right back on the trailer for me.  This was the biggest rodeo of the year and I was really afraid that I may have just hurt my horse and chances of placing up there.  When we got up there it was POURING down rain and the arena was a mud hole.  I was saddling up getting ready to run and had Mighty Mouse tied underneath the awning.  Well the awning had filled up with water and as I was getting her saddle the awning BROKE right on top of her.  She started to panic, and I could not get her untied.  Luckily I got her calmed down and out from underneath the awning, but she was shaking and scared.  Mind you this was about 30 min before we were to run.  I got her saddle and walked her up to the arena.  This rodeo is INSANELY loud, there are fireworks, and you have to almost run people over in the streets to get to the arena.  She warmed up good and when we came down that alley I knew she was running hard and we had a shot to make it back to the short go.  I ending up placing 6th in the Long Go making it back to the Short go.  This run also helped me solidify my spot in the top 15 to make the IFR that year and just really showed me the heart and grit that Mighty Mouse has